The Novem­ber run­ning sched­ule kicks off with a bang on the 5th as the On­te­ora Run­ners Club hosts its an­nual Har­vest Run.

The race, which was once a half-marathon, was shaved to an 8-mile dis­tance, but will still travel through the same res­i­den­tial neigh­bor­hood in Red Hook.

“While we were look­ing to do the race as a half-marathon, we found this time of year was pretty full (of them) al­ready,” said ORC pres­i­dent Deb Do­mack.

“To not com­pete with other races, we opted for a unique 8-mile course.”

Do­mack said the dis­tance also pro­vides an op­por­tu­nity for 10k run­ners to stretch out their dis­tance a bit with­out hav­ing to cover the 13.1 miles of a half-marathon course.

The race starts promptly at 10 a.m. from the Red Hook Recre­ation Park with par­tic­i­pants asked to en­ter at the Fruit Bud Lane en­trance.

En­try fee is now $30 and race-day reg­is­tra­tion starts at 8:30 a.m.

“It’s one of three races that the club spon­sors and it’s also the ninth race in our Grand Prix Se­ries,” Do­mack added.

“All of the pro­ceeds go to the ORC Schol­ar­ship Fund and we award those schol­ar­ships to high school se­niors who are mem­bers of the club.”

This year’s en­tire race com­mit­tee is com­prised of mem­bers of the club’s Board of Di­rec­tors.

Do­mack said many busi­nesses and or­ga­ni­za­tions have stepped for­ward to help as race spon­sors. “The first 75 pre­reg­is­tered run­ners get a longsleeve t-shirt and we still need vol­un­teers to as­sist with traf­fic con­trol and wa­ter stops,” she said.

You can get more de­tails by con­tact­ing Do­mack at ORCpres@ gmail.com or you can down­load an ap­pli­ca­tion at www.on­te­o­rarun­ners.com.